Overview
Collection Information
Size: 20 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, business files, subject files, biographical material, clippings, scrapbooks, sketches and sketchbooks, notes and speeches, exhibition catalogues and invitations, financial records, and photographs of de Botton and his work.
Biographical/Historical Note
Abstract painter (Paris and New York). Born in Salonika, Greece, Jean de Botton studied at the École des beaux-arts and at the Sorbonne. For years, he maintained homes in Paris and in New York, but in 1945 he established his main residence in New York, and in 1977 he became a U.S. citizen.
Provenance
The donors, James Harold Koch and Valerie Eldridge, were co-executors of Jean de Botton's estate.
Language Note
English .
